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Would-be underwear bomber a double agent
(CBS News) The would-be bomber in the recently-uncovered plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner leaving Yemen was an undercover intelligence agent. The plot was revealed to U.S. intelligence officials based on a tip by Saudi intelligence services, and had been revealed by a Saudi intelligence source who had been inside Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and providing information through the Saudis for some time.
CBS News correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director at the FBI, reports that the double-agent revelation goes right to the heart of an intelligence agency's nightmare, which is identifying a source that they've placed inside an organization.
Intelligence agencies and senior officials tell CBS News they're not going anywhere near commenting on the issue for obvious reasons.
The Associated Press is reporting that the alleged double agent has been removed from Yemen and apparently is safe. This may go a long way toward explaining why authorities said yesterday that the bomber was no longer considered a threat.
It may well be now that he was actually working with the CIA all along.
(CBS News) The would-be bomber in the recently-uncovered plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner leaving Yemen was an undercover intelligence agent. The plot was revealed to U.S. intelligence officials based on a tip by Saudi intelligence services, and had been revealed by a Saudi intelligence source who had been inside Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and providing information through the Saudis for some time.
CBS News correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director at the FBI, reports that the double-agent revelation goes right to the heart of an intelligence agency's nightmare, which is identifying a source that they've placed inside an organization.
Intelligence agencies and senior officials tell CBS News they're not going anywhere near commenting on the issue for obvious reasons.
The Associated Press is reporting that the alleged double agent has been removed from Yemen and apparently is safe. This may go a long way toward explaining why authorities said yesterday that the bomber was no longer considered a threat.
It may well be now that he was actually working with the CIA all along.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57430472/would-be-underwear-bomber-a-double-agent/
^^ Osama was a Bush1 appointment, when GHWB was a spankin' new chief spy and bin-Laden was fightin' Commies in Afghanistan.
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